Open Studios is a podcast brought to you by PerformVu, the digital home for experimental performance. In every episode, performance artist Asia Stewart will sit down with another artist to take a virtual step inside their studio and learn more about their practice and motivations.
Open Studios
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Open Studios is a podcast brought to you by PerformVu, the digital home for experimental performance. In every episode, performance artist Asia Stewart will sit down with another artist to take a virtual step inside their studio and learn more about their practice and motivations.
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April 11, 2024
E11: Jemila MacEwan - Protesting in Advocacy for Life
<p>This week, interdisciplinary earthworks artist Jemila MacEwan joins Asia to talk about their grounded, meditative practice.</p> <p><br>Jemila and Asia begin their conversation by reflecting on the changing of the seasons, and the powerful emotional, psychological, and social shifts that occur when spring begins (1:57). </p> <p><br></p> <p>Jemila contemplates the fear and dread that many people in the Western world experience in relation to spring, with the knowledge that what comes into being in spring will soon die in autumn (3:39). </p> <p><br></p> <p>They discuss how many of these anxieties and transformations are the foundation of their upcoming durational performance, “Seed Meditation,” which takes place over the course of 10 days and involves the artist holding a germinating seed in their hands-- a public invitation to contemplate birth, growth, life and death (6:21).</p> <p><br></p> <p>Jemila and Asia discuss the choice of Washington Square Park as the site for the performance (10:10) and consider the long history of protest and community building that has occurred in the park (11:36). </p> <p><br></p> <p>They reflect on the risks of the performance-- including whether or not the seed successfully germinates-- and from there, they discuss the general challenges that durational artists experience when committing to long-form work (16:05). </p> <p><br></p> <p>Jemila acknowledges the crucial role that community support plays in their practice (21:27). They plan to establish a reciprocal relationship between them and their audience and participants by offering passersby a book containing information on how to grow and care for a seed, and how to embark upon their own personal seed meditation (28:02).</p> <p><br>“Seed Meditation” is one in a long line of performance art earthworks, and Jemila emphasizes the myriad lessons that we can learn from studying and sitting with nature (30:52). They contemplate the cycle of life and death and how human bodies return to the earth and nourish new life (34:07). </p> <p><br></p> <p>The episode concludes with Jemila and Asia recalling the scientific principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only altered-- and both artists discuss the existential comfort and peace that realization can bring to our increasingly turbulent and anxiety-ridden culture (36:17).</p> <p><br></p> <p>Follow Jemila on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jemila_macewan/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@jemila_macewan</a> and online at <a href="https://www.jemilamacewan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.jemilamacewan.com</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>This podcast is produced and edited by Asia Stewart.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Find Asia online <a href="https://www.instagram.com/asiastewart/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@asiastewart</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/performvu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@performvu</a></p>
October 15, 2023
E10: Lynn Lu - Transforming Audiences into Co-Creators
<p>In this episode of Open Studios, Asia is joined by Lynn Lu. Lynn is an artist who embraces participation and collaboration in her performances, making space for the development of intimacy and connections with others that the constraints and isolating nature of our world don’t typically allow for. </p> <p>Building upon strategies introduced by artists like Marina Abramović and Valie Export, Lynn devises performances that enable audiences to determine the content and outcome of her work (2:16). </p> <p>Asia and Lynn discuss how trust and consent operate in her interactive performances (3:06) and Lynn mentions a time an audience member withdrew consent (5:42). </p> <p>The two later discuss strawberrymilkbath, one of Lynn's earliest performances (09:21). In this piece, Lynn bathed in a tub filled with strawberry milk and invited audiences to drink her bathwater. </p> <p>Asia and Lynn then reflect on the ways that Lynn's work promotes empathy and understanding, and Lynn shares her hope of building resonant relationships through her art (14:13).</p> <p>In many performances, Lynn has encouraged participants to share extremely private memories or secrets anonymously. In one such performance at the Tate Modern in 2010, Lynn held up a sign that read "Free Secrets. Take one and/or leave one" (19:38). After collecting secrets and confessions across a number of years, Lynn thinks about what it has meant for her to hold onto so many strangers' stories (21:20). </p> <p>Towards the end of the conversation, Lynn shares what she has learned about herself from her audiences over the years (24:12). After realizing that many view her as non-threatening, Lynn decided to use the assumptions that people make about her to her advantage in performances (27:04). </p> <p>Finally, Lynn reveals details about one of her latest projects, which will focus on perimenopause and menopause (31:12). </p> <p>Follow Lynn Lu on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lululotte/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@lululotte</a> and online at <a href="https://lynnlu.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">lynnlu.info</a></p> <p>This podcast is produced and edited by Asia Stewart.</p> <p>Find Asia online <a href="https://www.instagram.com/asiastewart/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@asiastewart</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/performvu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@performvu</a></p>
September 22, 2023
E9: Sarah Cameron Sunde - Decentering the Human Experience
<p>Sarah Cameron Sunde, an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of performance, video, and socially-engaged public art joins Asia on this episode of the podcast. </p> <p>Asia and Sarah discuss Sarah's incredible project 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, a series of nine site-specific performances and video art works made in collaboration with communities around the world. In each performance, Sarah, joined by community members, stands silently in a body of water for a full tide cycle that lasts from 12 - 13 hours. Over this period of time, the water rises to almost engulf participants and later recedes back to low tide. </p> <p>As the conversation begins, Sarah shares how she feels about the approach of the one-year anniversary of the final performance of 36.5, which took place in the New York Estuary on September 14, 2022 (2:10). Although the 36.5 series is complete, Sarah and Asia consider how 36.5 can continue to live on in other people's bodies (6:03). </p> <p>Asia then asks Sarah to think back to the moment when Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012 (8:58). In the wake of the deadly storm, Sarah realized how vulnerable the city was to sea-level rise and extreme weather, and she felt motivated to use art to communicate the struggle for survival amidst the climate crisis.</p> <p>In the second-half of the episode, Sarah shares how she formed connections with people around the world to generate different iterations of 36.5 on almost every continent. Sarah also offers the example of how 36.5 was developed in Brazil with her collaborators (18:47). </p> <p>Recognizing how important it will be to record and document all of the stories of 36.5, Sarah is working with Una Chaudhuri to write a book about the project (24:41). In closing, Sarah shares what gives her hope to continue her work (29:07) and provides a new way of framing what qualifies as a performance (30:53). </p> <p>Follow Sarah Cameron Sunde and 36.5 on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scsunde/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@scsunde</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/36.5durational/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@36.5durational</a> and online at <a href="https://www.sarahcameronsunde.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.sarahcameronsunde.com/ </a><br>and <a href="https://www.36pt5.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.36pt5.org/</a></p> <p>This podcast is produced and edited by Asia Stewart.</p> <p>Find Asia online <a href="https://www.instagram.com/asiastewart/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@asiastewart</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/performvu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@performvu</a></p>
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